ci: add noop release check

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -66,3 +66,25 @@ jobs:
         pip install -e '.[dev]'
     - name: Invoke PyTest
       run: pytest -v .
+
+  semantic_release:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    name: Semantic release noop
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+      - name: Set up Python 3.10
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+        with:
+          python-version: "3.10"
+
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: |
+          python -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel "build<0.10.0" python-semantic-release
+
+      - name: Python Semantic Release
+        id: release
+        uses: python-semantic-release/[email protected]
+        with:
+          root_options: -vv --noop

.github/workflows/create_release.yaml

@@ -48,14 +48,3 @@ jobs:
         with:
           github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
           tag: ${{ steps.release.outputs.tag }}
-
-      - name: Merge release back to main
-        run: |
-          git config user.email "[email protected]"
-          git config user.name "github-actions"
-          sudo chown -R "${USER:-$(id -un)}" .
-          git fetch
-          git checkout main
-          git pull
-          git merge --no-ff release -m "Auto-merge release back to main"
-          git push

.github/workflows/release.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+name: Create Release
+
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - release
+
+jobs:
+  release:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    environment:
+      name: pypi
+      url: https://pypi.org/project/nrtk-explorer/
+    permissions:
+      id-token: write
+      contents: write
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+
+      - name: Set up Python 3.10
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+        with:
+          python-version: "3.10"
+
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: |
+          python -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel "build<0.10.0" python-semantic-release
+
+      - name: Python Semantic Release
+        id: release
+        uses: python-semantic-release/[email protected]
+        with:
+          github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+
+      - name: Publish package distributions to PyPI
+        uses: pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish@release/v1
+        if: steps.release.outputs.released == 'true'
+        with:
+          password: ${{ secrets.PYPI_API_TOKEN }}
+
+      - name: Publish package distributions to GitHub Releases
+        uses: python-semantic-release/upload-to-gh-release@main
+        if: steps.release.outputs.released == 'true'
+        with:
+          github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+          tag: ${{ steps.release.outputs.tag }}
+
+      - name: Merge release back to main
+        run: |
+          git config user.email "[email protected]"
+          git config user.name "github-actions"
+          sudo chown -R "${USER:-$(id -un)}" .
+          git fetch
+          git checkout main
+          git pull
+          git merge --no-ff release -m "Auto-merge release back to main"
+          git push

.github/workflows/sync_branches.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+name: Sync release branch to main
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - release
+
+jobs:
+  release:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    permissions:
+      id-token: write
+      contents: write
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+
+      - name: Merge release -> main
+        uses: devmasx/merge-branch@master
+        with:
+          type: now
+          target_branch: main
+          message: Merge release into main
+          github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}